Reply to letter to the editor from Dale Rice, MD

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• 作者：William E. Bolger ; Christopher L. Brown ; Christopher A. Church ; Andrew N. Goldberg ; Boris Karanfilov ; Frederick A. Kuhn ; Howard L. Levine ; Michael J. Sillers ; Winston C. Vaughan ; Raymond L. Weiss
• 关键词：Care network ; Health network ; Representations ; Care actors ; General practitioners ; Perinatal period ; Pregnancy ; Postnatal period ; Psychiatric emergency department ; Follow-up study
• 刊名：Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：January 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：138
• 期：1
• 页码：126-127
• 全文大小：39 K

文摘

We describe our reorganization and analysis of objective measures in resident education before and after Hurricane Katrina. Post-Katrina, the number of full-time faculty and part-time clinical instructors/gratis faculty has decreased (4 vs 9 and 36 vs 43, respectively), but the number of part-time LSU faculty (private-academic partnership) has increased (0 vs 3) with overall improved resident supervision. Resident complement decreased by 9.3 % . Surgical case loads are essentially unchanged. Reorganization of the didactic schedule has increased attendance and maintained examination scores above national averages. Establishment of two new practice sites provided an adequate number of patients for residency training.

Conclusion

Poststorm reorganization has maintained or exceeded pre-Katrina performance standards. Establishment of communication and data retrieval proved irreplaceable and demand advance preparation.